James Leith Moody

The Reverend
James Leith Moody
Born(1816-06-25)25 June 1816
St. Ann's Garrison, Bridgetown, Barbados
Died1896(1896-00-00) (aged 79–80)
EducationTonbridge School
Alma materSt. Mary Hall, Oxford (BA, 1840; MA, 1842)
OccupationClergyman
Known forChaplain of the Royal Navy in China; and of the British Army in the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Malta, and Crimea
Relatives

James Leith Moody (1816–1896) was a British clergyman who was Chaplain of the Royal Navy in China; and of the British Army in the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Malta, and Crimea.

Family

James Leith Moody was born at St. Ann's Garrison, Barbados,[1] on 25 June 1816,[2] into a high church landed gentry family that had a history of military service.[3] He was named after Sir James Leith,[2] to whom his father had served as aide-de-camp during the Napoleonic Wars.[3][4][2]

He was the fifth child and third son,[5] of ten children,[6][7] of Colonel Thomas Moody, CRE WI, Kt.,[3] by Martha Clement (1784 - 1868) who was the daughter of the Napoleonic Wars veteran and Barbados landowner Richard Clement (1754 – 1829),[8][9] and the aunt of the Belgravia cricketers Reynold Clement and Richard Clement.[10]

His paternal grandmother was Barbara Blamire of Cumberland who was a cousin of the MP William Blamire and of the poet Susanna Blamire.[11] His paternal cousin was the high church clergyman Clement Moody, Vicar of Newcastle.[7][12]

Siblings

James Leith Moody's siblings included: Major Thomas Moody (1809 - 1839);[13] Major-General Richard Clement Moody (1813 – 1887) (who was the first British Governor of the Falkland Islands, and the founder of British Columbia);[7][6][2] Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody CB (1821 - 1869)[7][6] (who was Commander of the Royal Engineers in China[14][15] during the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion); and the sugar-manufacture expert Shute Barrington Moody[16][7][17] through whom his nephew was Commander Thomas Barrington Moody (b. 1848) of the Royal Navy.[18]

Career

James Leith was educated at Tonbridge School, from 1827 to 1835, from which he won a Smythe Exhibition, and at St. Mary Hall, Oxford (BA, 1840; MA, 1842).[5][2] He was ordained as a priest, by John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln, in 1841.[2]

He served as chaplain to the Royal Navy in China; and to the British Army in the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Malta, and Crimea.[8][5] He arrived in the Falkland Islands in October 1845, subsequent to which he was found to be 'querulous and eccentric', by his brother Richard Clement Moody, the Governor of the Falkland Islands;[8] and also by his brother's successor as Governor George Rennie.[2] He left the Falkland Islands in 1854.[2]

He was Assistant Chaplain to the British Armed Forces at Aldershot in 1859.[5][2]

He during 1865 lived at Walmer in Kent.[2] He was Rector of Virginstow, Launceston, Cornwall, from 1876 to 1879,[5][2] and Vicar of St. John the Baptist, Clay Hill, Enfield, from 1879 to 1885. He retired to West Dulwich[5] where he died on 28 May 1896[2] whilst living at Clinton House.[19] He left chattels that were worth £4000 (about £200,000 in 21st century money).[2]

He and his wife Mary, who died on 28 July 1930 at the age of 99 years,[2] are buried at Beckenham Cemetery, England.[20] He is commemorated on a 1994 stamp of the 'Foundation of Stanley Series' that was issued in the Falkland Islands.[2]

Marriage and Issue

Moody on 15 October 1863 married, at Winchester, Mary Willan, who was the daughter of The Rev. Willan, by whom he had five children.[2]

Their son The Rev. Reginald Frederick Moody (13 March 1872[21] - 9 June 1955, Bromley, Kent),[22] who was educated at Dulwich College[21] and at Queens' College, Cambridge,[23] was ordained in Durham as a deacon in 1896 and as a priest in 1897,[24] and became Vicar of St. Stithians, Cornwall,[25] and Rector of Spennithorne, Leyburn, Yorkshire.[21] He married Helen Merian Stuart Moody.[22][26]

References

  1. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Moody, James Leith" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Entry for Moody, James Leith, in Dictionary of Falklands Biography".
  3. ^ a b c Rupprecht, Anita (September 2012). "'When he gets among his countrymen, they tell him that he is free': Slave Trade Abolition, Indentured Africans and a Royal Commission". Slavery & Abolition. 33 (3): 435–455. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2012.668300. S2CID 144301729.
  4. ^ Leith Hay, Sir Andrew (1818). Appendix to Memoirs of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir James Leith GCB. William Stockdale. p. 12.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Hughes-Hughes, W. O. (1893). Entry for Moody, James Leith, in The Register of Tonbridge School from 1820 to 1893. Richard Bentley and Son, London. p. 30.
  6. ^ a b c Hamilton Vetch, Robert. "Moody, Richard Clement, in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885 – 1900, Vol. 38".
  7. ^ a b c d e "Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Profile and Legacies Summary". University College London. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  8. ^ a b c Tatham, David. "Moody, Richard Clement". Dictionary of Falklands Biography.
  9. ^ "Legacies of British Slave Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Imperial Legacy Details".
  10. ^ "Hampden Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL". University College London. 2019.
  11. ^ "The Moody Family, Some Longtown Families". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  12. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Moody, Clement" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  13. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume XII, by Sylvanus Urban, July to December 1839, p.214
  14. ^ War Office of Great Britain (1863). Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 25 June, 1863 : for, "Copy of the Correspondence Between the Military Authorities at Shanghai and the War Office Respecting the Insalubrity of Shanghai as a Station for European Troops:" "And, Numerical Return of Sickness and Mortality of the Troops of All Arms at Shanghai, from the Year 1860 to the Latest Date, showing the Per-centage upon the Total Strength". p. 107.
  15. ^ Meehan, John D. Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada's Early Relations with China, 1858-1952. p. 17.
  16. ^ Headstone of Shute Barrington Moody, St. Matthew's Church, Kensington Road, Marryatville, Adelaide, South Australia
  17. ^ "Lieut. [Col.] Thomas Moody to Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, 16 May 1833, Archive Reference/Library Class No. D3155/C/6907, Wilmot-Horton family Correspondence, Derbyshire Record Office". Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  18. ^ "Journal of Thomas Barrington Moody" (PDF). UNSW Canberra. 2017.
  19. ^ Entry for Moody, The Reverend James Leith, in England and Wales Probate Index, 1858-1995
  20. ^ Beckenham Cemetery Graves, The Rev. James Leith Moody
  21. ^ a b c Entry for Moody, Reginald Frederick, The Dulwich College Register 1619 to 1926
  22. ^ a b Entry for Moody, The Reverend Reginald Frederick, in England and Wales Probate Index, 1858-1995
  23. ^ "Entry for Moody, Reginald Frederick, Members of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1448 - 1900, Queens' College Cambridge" (PDF).
  24. ^ "Entry for Reginald Frederick Moody, Durham Diocesan Records: Catalogue of Clergy and Layworkers' Papers". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  25. ^ "Entry for Moody, Reginald Frederick, Stithians Families II, Edward Martin".
  26. ^ Entry for Reginald Frederick Moody, Parish of Stithians, Cornwall, 1921 England and Wales Census

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